There's no pressure. Keep moving. Fair enough.
I really like your blueprint, entitled “The Canadian Blueprint: The Time for Action Is Now”. One of the things I like is on page 11. I'm not going to ask you to quote it, but I'm going to read something: “The biggest challenges facing biotechnology in Canada today are attracting investment for commercialization, building the business case to do more here, attracting and retaining the high-quality people necessary to expand our research....”
From the start of this committee, I could have put each of those statements into any sector, from forestry to oil and gas to energy. One of the important things we need to do is stated in your line that the time for action is now. All these challenges can be overcome if governments, private enterprise, and the research community choose action over hesitation and decisiveness over delay.
We've heard a lot about knowledge infrastructure. Would it not be the time to be decisive and to do the action in the knowledge infrastructure? If one of these companies that is potentially closing in 2009 is one step away from finding the little epiphany when the light goes on, and we've found the biofuel that's actually going to help us with the green economy, is it now time to put more of our investment into the knowledge infrastructure to help us down the road?
I'll open that up.